31-05-2016
Google seeks to conquer the world of culture through a new platform that allows you to see all the art in a single click.
Paris is the laboratory of Google and within it the art camera, a gadget that allows you to scan artwork quickly and with excellent definition. The laboratory director of Google Cultural Institute, Laurent Gaveau, said: "With the digital give more eager to go to the museum."
The camera is a black cube the size of two shoeboxes you get 1217 pictures of painting that confronts in an hour. Its high resolution gigapixel can observe from any computer details photographed, imperceptible to the human eye canvas.
In addition, this device proposes a new step for the Google Cultural Institute who developed five years ago the online platform with a search engine that today brings together more than six million content between works, art objects, virtual tours and photo archives 1000 cultural institutions that preserve rights on digital image capture.
So, Google seeks to generate new ways to access the art that re-evaluate the role of museums. Since without leaving your home, the user can access detailed collections of art from around the world, online exhibitions including related to important moments in the history of mankind or through Street View to visit the sites events declared heritage worldwide.
With more than 50 million visits per year, this kind of digital museum managed to gather art from Mongolia to Patagonia. Against this cultural movement often criticized by some cultural establishments, the Google Cultural Institute defends and asserts that this digital revolution benefits the museums, providing access to new Internet users and audiences.
Source: La Nacion
